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Validación del Sistema de Calificación de Complejidad de Procedimientos Endoscópicos de la Sociedad Estadounidense de

Trent J Walradt¹, Daniel P Szvarca¹, Brian C Jacobson²

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115.

Clinical and translational gastroenterology

|February 24, 2026

Abstracto

Introduction:

We sought to perform the first validation of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) complexity grades for EGD, colonoscopy, ERCP, and EUS.

Methods:

We used Pearson's correlation coefficients to measure the correlation between complexity grades and both work relative value units (wRVUs) and malpractice RVUs (mRVUs) obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Results:

There was moderate to strong positive correlation between complexity grades and both wRVU and mRVU for a range of EGD, colonoscopy and EUS procedures. This was not observed for ERCP procedures, with many RVU values remaining low for even the most complex ERCP cases.

Conclusions:

The ASGE's endoscopic complexity grading system for EGD, colonoscopy and EUS appears to correlate reasonably well with other recognized metrics of complexity and risk. The complexity levels for ERCP may be valid, but there is poor correlation with how these procedures are valued by Medicare.

Palabras clave:

Endoscopia gastrointestinal Calificación de complejidad Unidades de valor relativo EGD Colonoscopia EUS ERCP Economía médica Investigación de servicios de salud

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